Supreme Court seems likely to rule narrowly for family whose house was wrongly raided by FBI [View all]
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Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to rule narrowly in favor of a family trying to hold federal law enforcement accountable in court after an FBI raid wrongly targeted their Atlanta home.
The justices seemed open to giving them another chance to sue over the raid, but wary of handing down a more sweeping ruling on federal liability in law enforcement cases.
The case was filed after FBI agents broke down Trina Martin’s door before dawn in 2017. They pointed guns at Martin and her then-boyfriend and terrified her 7-year-old son before realizing they were in the wrong place.
The FBI team quickly apologized and left, with the leader later saying that his personal GPS device had led him to the wrong place.
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